Importance of Data Aggregation in the SEP Database
What is the Declaration Aggregation?
What is the Families Aggregation?
Importance of Data Aggregation in the SEP Database
The SEP (Standard Essential Patent) Database within the IPlytics Platform aggregates data from a multitude of sources to provide a comprehensive view of patents essential for implementing standardized technologies.
This data aggregation process is crucial for understanding the complex relationships between patents and standards, particularly in industries like telecommunications, where standards such as 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi is prevalent.
The SEP Database aggregates data from over 120 million patents and displays declared and pooled patents as well as potentially undeclared patents for various standard generations. This extensive integration allows users to access a wide range of information, including details about standard setting organizations, licensing commitments, and patent pools. By connecting worldwide declared patent information with global patent and standards data, the IPlytics database provides a detailed and interconnected perspective on the patent landscape.
One of the key aspects of data aggregation in the SEP Database is the matching of declared patents to relevant standards and technology generations. This process involves sophisticated methods that have been validated by leading economists and published in peer-reviewed journals. The IPlytics platform employs semi-manual selection and the use of filters and manual lookups to correct potential mismatches, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of the data.
How is the data aggregated?
The SEP Database is based on three aggregation levels: Documents, SEPs, and Families.
For example, let us assume you search to understand if the INPADOC family 20170511WO2017076102A1 (inpadoc_family_id_search:(20170511WO2017076102A1) was declared to 5G. For this, you can run the following search:
(technology_generation_array:"5G") AND (inpadoc_family_id_search:(20170511WO2017076102A1))
What is the Declaration Aggregation?
The Declaration aggregation will display the complete declaration information of all patent family members and their associated declared 5G TS (technical specification) numbers. Each count is displayed in a row in the search section, which is based on a unique declaration combination of a patent to a TS number and standard project on a given declaration date. A patent can be displayed multiple times to different 5G TS numbers, or shown two times if the patent was declared to the same TS number on different declaration dates or to different standard projects.
In our example, you can see that the family contains 72 declarations count information:
The patent (WO2017076102A1) will be listed multiple times as it got declared to multiple 5G TS numbers – standard project combination on different declaration dates:
What is the SEPs Aggregation?
The SEPs aggregation aggregates the complete declaration information to a unique patent. All the declaration information of the patent (WO2017076102A1) is aggregated into one count for the specific patent:
The patents will be deduplicated following the aggregation logic of the patent aggregation.
What is the Families Aggregation?
In the Families aggregation, the complete declaration information will be aggregated to the INPADOC family number:
IPlytics will display the latest granted patent document as the representing patent.